Fair Trade WA Oxfam Group

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We are a group of hardworking volunteers, committed to promoting Fair Trade, supporting Fair Trade producers and raising money for Oxfam. From small beginnings in 2007 the group has grown, as has the range of stock and producers supported.

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Here at the Fair Trade WA Group Shop we love a good tea or coffee to get through a cold winter morning. We stock a variety of delicious fairtrade BioBean coffees (both ground and whole bean) from Columbia, Ethiopia, Honduras, East Timor and other areas of the world as well as Oxfams own Fair. label of tea, coffee (or hot chocolate for the kids and sweet tooth people out there). Maybe you're more of a tea drinker? You'll find a large range of Clipper tea in flavours such as Fennel, Green Chai and Rasberry leaf and a selection of Qi Organic Teas at only $5 per box of 20 or 25 bags.

Pop into the volunteer run store between 11 and 3pm at 5 King William Street Bayswater or phone ahead on 08 9262 8206 to place an order. While you're in don't forget to mosey through other fairtrade product. (All purchases are cash only).

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Buy a
beautiful fair trade present for your mum from our Fair Trade Shop, and know that you are helping to provide a
livelihood for another mum in Bangladesh or Cambodia or Ecuador or India or
Peru or Uganda or …We have an
exciting range of lovely handcrafted gift items, mostly priced under $20 (ideal
for the kids to find something for Mum)

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

An Emergency Appeal Fund Raiser for those affected by Cyclone Pam

An Emergency Appeal Fund Raiser for those affected by Cyclone Pam

A fundraiser to help the people of Vanuatu who have been devastated by Cyclone Pam featuring acclaimed comedians - Chris Wainhouse (Sydney), Brad Oakes (Melbourne), Trevor Crook (Sydney) and others. When: Saturday 18th April 2015
Doors open 7.00pm; Show 8.00 – 10.00pm;Venue: The Charles Hotel, 509 Charles Street, North Perth, WA 6006 Tickets: $30.00 Food and Drink available

Please join us in this comedy gala with a line up of acclaimed comedians. A great night with laughs guaranteed that will help Oxfam make a difference to the people of VanuatuTickets available at http://www.trybooking.com/HFXC

Fairly Fashionable? challenges
designers and consumers to ask themselves the big questions - where are
my clothes made, how are they made, under what conditions are they made
and how does their design and manufacture impact on the environmental,
social and economic sustainability of our people and our planet?

"On 24 April 2013 an eight-story building housing several garment
factories collapsed in Savar, near Bangladesh's capital. The death toll
reached over 1,100...BHRS"

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Friday, June 6, 2014

Australians who enjoy a bowl of Cornflakes in the morning may be
shocked to learn that Kellogg’s is among the worst performing of ten
major food and drink companies when it comes to greenhouse gas
emissions, Oxfam Australia said today.
The report, Standing on the Sidelines – why food and beverage companies must do more to tackle climate change,
calls on the ‘laggards’ of the food and beverage industry, Kellogg’s
and General Mills (Old El Paso, Latina pasta), to up their game on
reducing emissions within their supply chain, along with the rest of the
top 10 food and beverage companies.
Oxfam Australia’s food policy specialist Kelly Dent said that the top
ten food and beverage companies together emitted more greenhouse gases
than Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway combined.
“If they were a single country, they would be the 25th most polluting country in the world,” Ms Dent said.
“The ‘Big 10’ companies could cut their emissions by 80 million
tonnes by 2020 – when global emissions need to start reducing in order
for the world to stay within a safe climate – which would be the
equivalent to taking all Australian cars off the road.”
The global food system – including sources from production of
agricultural inputs like fertiliser, to emissions from agricultural
production, refrigeration and transport – accounts for about 25 – 27 per
cent of global emissions.
The ‘Big 10’ companies are Associated British Foods, Coca-Cola,
Danone, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Mars, Mondelez International, Nestle,
PepsiCo and Unilever. Of their total emissions, about half come from
the production of agricultural materials from their supply chains, yet
these emissions are not covered by the reduction targets the companies
have set.
Ms Dent said some of the companies had admitted that climate change was already hurting them financially.
Unilever says it now loses $444 million (US $415 million) a year,
while General Mills reported losing 62 days of production in the first
fiscal quarter of 2014 alone because of extreme weather conditions that
are growing worse because of climate change.
Oxfam predicts that the price of key products like Kellogg’s Corn
Flakes could rise over the next 15 years – for example, up to 44 per
cent in the UK – because of climate change.
“Too many of today’s food and beverage giants are crossing their
fingers and hoping that climate change won’t disrupt the food system,
imagining someone else will fix it,” Ms Dent said.
Oxfam singled out Kellogg and General Mills as two of the worst on
climate change and is calling on them to put in place more responsible
policies and practices.
“As companies that are deeply exposed to climate impacts, it’s in the
interest of food and beverage companies to see a more ambitious
national and global response. We are therefore urging them to also speak
up for stronger government policies and programs to tackle climate
change,” she said.
Read the report here

Friday, January 24, 2014

This was one of the thoughts racing through my head as I straddled a shivering coffee tree on a steep, crumbly volcanic mountainside in Colombia's Narino district. However, mostly I was thinking: "Don't die! Don't die!"

The "grande gringo" as I became known to my coffee farmer hosts did not fall to his death, but, following my visit, coffee prices did.

In 2012, while I traveled to Honduras and Colombia researching my latest book Where Am I Eating? An Adventure Through the Global Food Economy, the global price for a pound of coffee beans stood at $1.60. By November of 2013, prices fell to $1.00 per pound -- a six-and-a-half year low.

When I read the reports of the low prices, I couldn't help but think of Felipe Ordonez, the Colombian farmer who allowed me to molest his trees. Felipe is a wiry man who bound up and down his sloped mountainside of coffee like a billy goat. Like other farmers around the world, Felipe was concerned about the changing climate. (On my global farming adventure, I met farmers on four continents and not a single one of them was a climate change denier.) His crop, facing wetter wet seasons and drier dry seasons, was threatened by coffee rust and beetles.